Beat me to it. Everyone should have an old Betty Crocker cookbook.
Key word being OLD. I have a new one and an old one and the old one is great. The new one is not nearly as good as the old one.
Three other great old cookbooks to pick up are “The Joy of Cooking”, “Better Homes and Gardens” and “Fannie Farmer Cookbook”. Look for copyright dates from the 1940’s or earlier on old cookbooks. They are far better than the everyday cookbooks out there today for simple everyday meals made from scratch.
My Better Homes and Garden’s cookbook is from 1949 and is a 3 ring binder style book. This style of cookbook made it easy for home cooks to add their own receipes to the cookbook, so often these cookbooks will have lots of extra recipes in them as well.
Garage sales, especially in retirement communities, are great places to pick up old cookbooks. They are usually really cheap too.
I have my mom’s old Betty Crocker cookbook from the 50s (I believe...I don’t have it here at work)
Some great old time recipes. Next time I’m down in California (working in Alaska) I’ll have to bring it back with me.